15 Apr 1880
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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1880
Page
1
An extended, reflective piece contrasts lowland and mountain cultures in the South, detailing legal vigilantism, courtrooms, duels, and street justice. It recalls a Tennessee courthouse, a deadly feud, and a Kentuckian’s humorous rebuke on a Mississippi steamer, highlighting enduring regional attitudes toward honor and public sentiment.
Diseases vary by temperament, age, sex, climate, and surroundings. Each patient has different morbid tendencies and susceptibilities. one attack can alter future risk, and prior illnesses influence outcomes. Family physicians use study, experience, and patient knowledge to tailor care, while self treatment carries risks.
A Strasburg report analyzed 66 sudden death cases with post mortems finding only two from heart disease. Most deaths stemmed from lung congestion due to cold, tight clothing, stunned after exertion, or rapid exposure, suggesting prevention could extend lives. The note also cites Australia's first quarter 1879 gold output at 2,123 ounces, with over one fourth Chinese miners.
A Georgia woman sustained serious bites and torn clothing when Judge R O Fain's large watch dog attacked her after being released from a leash. A relative fired buckshot twice, the second shot finally felled the animal, leaving Miss Fain badly injured but alive.
A poorly dressed man visited the Tribune office on Saturday to confront the editor. He objected to a humorous item about an impoverished man in Winona Minnesota and urged the paper to stop publishing such stories. He claimed to represent about 500,000 Americans and demanded stories of wealth and charity rather than hardship.
An English medical writer argues that sending invalids to the seaside for convalescence is outdated. He cites volatile coastal climate and frequent temperature shifts, claiming country districts may better aid recovery and that sea air claims are not overwhelming when these drawbacks are weighed.
A New York Herald item reports David Fishel of this city owns a hen born in Ohio that has teeth. The creature has small incisors visible when its mouth opens, a monkeylike head and a humanlike nose. The bird, under a year old, has no beak yet, sits in a shop window, and its owner hopes it may grow more teeth.
A discussion of livestock numbers across continents outlines estimates for bovines and sheep in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Africa. It cites figures from Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and England’s colonies, noting variances due to taxation returns and reporting difficulties. The piece also recounts a dramatic incident on a passenger train where a woman threatened a man with a revolver after he attempted advances in the sleeping car. It closes with a Virginia correspondent noting the grave of Francis Tucker Blanche, mother of John Randolph, and a legal ruling that a husband and wife may form a valid partnership.
Spenser's portraiture differs from Chaucer's masterful eye for living detail. Chaucer treats beauty as earthly delight, while Spenser seeks the beauty behind beauty, linking it to divine wisdom and love. The piece notes Edwardian-era chivalry as both worldly and mystical, with Spenser elevating chivalry to a tender moral ideal.
Pittsburg man recalls a wild Leadville poker spree that began with $800 and a gold watch and ended with $4 800 cash plus gear lost and won again. After nearly shooting himself he returned to gambling, won back his losses, and vowed never to gamble again.
An 18th century anecdote recalls Johnson jesting with Mrs Priahet about tea and numbers. He claims a lady endured his intrusion and gossip, recounting a moment where he drank tea and offered sharp words after a boastful line. The tale references Sir Joshua Reynolds and the humorous exchange.
A Little Rock Gazette excerpt describes Frank Jones, ex officio colored, living five miles south of Ozark, Arkansas, as a man whose skin is shifting from black to white with a lamblike white spot on the breast expanding outward. At about 650 years old, he supposedly remains healthy while the change progresses toward half black and half white.
The Sacramento Accord records a prisoner's description sent to the Governor's office. Henry A Caulfield, Irish native aged 50, sentenced for manslaughter to six years from Sacramento, is described as 5 ft 8 in, light complexion, brown eyes, black hair, square features, high forehead, heavy eyebrows, multiple scars and wounds, limp, and stout build.
The London made watch Gen Washington gifted to widow Martha Custis before their marriage now rests at Washingtons headquarters Newbury. Mrs Washington wore it years then passed it to a niece and her son. A Virginia planter sold the heirloom after the Civil War due to poverty. The gold case features white enamel and a J marked dial spelling Martha Custis.
Dan Roberts of this city, owing a little over $1,900 in government pension arrears, vanished before a deed could be made after buying a house. He reappeared claiming amnesia and said he traveled in a swamp ten miles south, walking a well-worn path around a tree since he left. Trustees sent him back to Columbus, Indiana, with no knowledge of his funds. Texas has more mineral wells and springs than any other state.
A Providence Journal report recalls how cheap mineral oil devastates the whale-oil trade. It cites New Bedford's 1854 whaling fleet of 410 vessels and 668 nationwide as contrasts to later declines. Oil receipts drop from 208000 barrels in 1854 to 40000 in 1878, whalebone from 207259 pounds to 5562?000. A Sunday school tale shows changing times as a teacher’s class misanswers Noah’s ark companions, prompting humor about kinship.
A fragment recalls P T Barnum as a young man in debt evading payment to a judge. The judge responds with the line that a sieve cannot hold water. Years later the visionary addresses the judge with a brief letter claiming he has solved that sieve problem.
A historical note states that rats reproduce rapidly with a pair producing about thirteen litters of eight young in three years. Each offspring starts reproducing at six months, yielding a grand total of 656 from one pair after three years. Rats have spread globally, even reaching Ascension Island, India, China, and Japan.
A Paris editor traces the word lexicography through Littre's 1876 dictionary finding definitions for lexicograph and lexicographical. The inquiry concludes with the discovery that lexicography is the science of the lexicographer and related studies.
A vent about religious editors and questions of cats in the ark opens into a portrait of Fall River mill life. The Boston Herald depicts crowded tenements, relentless daily routines for wives and children, and the heavy burden on mothers amid drudgery and temperance woes. Included are recipes for frying liver Swedish style and a method for a deep black polish on iron and steel via a sulfur oil finish.
A garbled OCR fragment recounts bits of a circus crowd, a teacher and child dialogue, prices and trades, and scattered anecdotes. It mixes names, places, and numbers with stray lines about monks, a vain search for a mother, market items, and agricultural notes, all flickering without clear context.
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